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Æneʹas

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The hero of Virgil’s epic. He carried his father Anchiʹsēs on his shoulders from the flames of Troy. After roaming about for many years, he came to Italy, where he founded a colony which the Romans claim as their origin. The epithet applied to him is pius = pious, dutiful.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ædiles
Ægeus
Æginetan Sculptures
Ægir
Ægis
Ægrotat
A E I (A—i)
Ælurus
Æmilian Law
Æmonia Æmonian
Æneas
Æneid
Æolic Digamma
Æolic Mode
Æolus
Æon (Greek, aion)
Æra
Aèrated Bread
Aërated Water
Aerians
Æschylus (Greek, Aισχνλoζ)

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Æne`as